Dahir Adan

Dahir Adan (1995-17 September 2016) was an American Islamic State supporter who injured nine people in a stabbing at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota before being gunned down by police in September 2016.

Biography
Dahir Adan was born in 1995 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States to a family of Somali descent, and he practiced Sunni Islam. He was a good student at Apollo High School, and he did not have a violent criminal record; he had been stopped by police three times for minor traffic violations, however. Adan proceeded to attend St. Cloud State University, working part-time as a private security officer. However, Adan would be radicalized online, and he became a sympathizer of the Islamic State. On 17 September 2016, he entered the Crossroads Center mall with a knife and stabbed customers inside of the mall, wounding nine people. He was then gunned down by an off-duty policeman, ending his rampage. Amaq News Agency stated that the attack had been carried out by an IS soldier.